In recent years, more students have begun taking Algebra 1 in eighth or even seventh grade – something that was fairly uncommon just three decades ago, when the vast majority of students were ...

How do you solve a problem like eighth grade algebra? Not the actual problems covered by the syllabus — the graphing of compound inequalities, say, or the untangling of scatter plots — but the ...

The school board for District 97 will be voting on an important part of middle-school math at its meeting on Dec. 10, and few people in the community have noticed. Specifically, the board will be ...